Putnam may fight release of permit data

12:58 AM,
Jan. 4, 2013

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John Ferro
| Poughkeepsie Journal

Two state legislators are vowing to press for a law that would make information contained in a pistol permit application confidential and not subject to the state's open-record laws.

State Sen. Greg Ball, Republican of Patterson, and Assemblyman Steve Katz, R-Yorktown, detailed their intention at a news conference Thursday at the Putnam County Courthouse.

The news conference was the latest response to the intense controversy that has followed the Dec. 23 publication by The Journal News of the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. The ...